Australia’s brootal death merchants, Werewolves returns with album #7. Yes, you read that correctly. They release an album every year since their inception, and as the old saying goes, “If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It”. I did review their fifth album Die for Us and raved about the brutality. Well, get ready for a […]
Aussie brutal death metal merchants Algor Mortis have returned with their debut album The Art of Suffering. I reviewed their Stages of Death EP in 2024 and was quite impressed by these Australian brutalizers. 10 songs in 26 minutes, and it’s all about the quality, baby! At 58 seconds, “Lifeless” opens the album, and Cecilia’s […]
Here’s a reunion I didn’t see coming or know anything about until the promo showed up in my inbox. For a while there, in the mid 00s, Sweden’s The Duskfall (formed by Gates of Ishtar’s Mikael Sandorf, after they broke up) were considered one of the heirs apparent to In Flames as they entered their […]
An EP a day keeps the doctor away, that’s what I always say. I’ll take a sweet twenty-minute EP over a bloated hour-long behemoth that goes nowhere for eternity. Wouldn’t you know it? El Jefe sent me a tidy, four-track EP from a Northern German collective known as Urzikel. Honestly, that’s about all I know […]
Here at TeethoftheDivine HQ, we get bombarded with hundreds of emails a week: promos, news, spam, etc. Most of the promos are largely auto-generated or canned and contain some sort of PR blurb via some sort of promotional/publicity platform (i.e., Haulix, which is great) But occasionally, we get sent a nice personal email or note […]
I hate writing negative reviews. I was always told, “If you don’t have anything to say, don’t say anything at all’. But I feel like fans of France’s long-running brutes Morgue need to be made aware of what’s happening on the band’s 6th album, their 4th after reforming in 2016 after breaking up in 2002, […]
It’s been three years since UK/German crushing doom metal band Thronehammer released their third album, Kingslayer, which I reviewed here, as well as the previous one, Incantation Rites. Slay | Kill | Erase is the band’s fourth album and, at 73 minutes, is pretty much the length of all their other albums; you know it’s […]
You’d think with my love of deathcore and especially Australian deathcore bands like A Night in Texas, Thy Art is Murder, Aversions Crown, Babirusa, and even going back to early Make Them Suffer, Signal The Firing Squad, and The Red Shore, I’d have at least some deeper love for Sydney’s vegan militants, To The Grave. But […]
Waaaay back in 94/95 I picked up a CD that would change my musical direction for years to come. Hordanes Land is, of course, the split between two then-fledgling Black Metal tyrants: Emperor and Enslaved. At that time I thought all Black Metal should sound like Cradle of Filth, so imagine my shock when I […]
Willowtip went on a bit of a tear last year with the likes of Patristic, Unmerciful, Ominous Ruin, Dessiderium, Ulcerate, Defeated Sanity, and Dormant Ordeal, one of my top albums of the year. They have followed it up with a decent 2026 with Sallow Moth, Eximperitus, but it hasn’t quite been on the same level […]
Germany’s black metal band, Firtan return with their fifth full-length album Helios. I reviewed their third album, Marter, in 2022 and raved about the band and record. The newest member of the band is Lukas Massinger, who joined on guitar last year. The biggest step forward for Firtan, on this release, is the band moving […]
This is sort of a big deal for me. I’m getting to review the new album from USBM stalwarts Wolves in the Throne Room called Estuary. I’ve reviewed some heavy-duty emotional albums recently from Enterré Vivant, Green Carnation, and Mother of Graves, and those have done a pretty good job of pulling the old heartstrings […]
Ireland’s Zealot Cult is back with album #2, Psalms of Filth. It’s been 8 years since the debut Spiritual Sickness. Jobs, families, personal health are all reasons for the delay in putting out a new album and are most of the reasons when a band takes a bit of time off. In this case, the […]
“Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.” – Robert Scoble I looked for all sorts of quotes about change when preparing to write this review. From Benjamin Disraeli to Heraclitus, but eventually settled on tech guru Robert Scoble, as the addition of inconvenience and opportunity seemed pretty apt […]
The Netherlands’ Written in Blood will be of interest to God Dethroned fans, as it features their former bassist and backing vocalist, Bert Hoving, who served in the band for their first few releases (he’s aided by a few other Dutch death/black metal veterans). Also, Henri Sattler produced this, the band’s second EP in 2026, […]
I love some triumphant, medieval melodic black metal; Véhémence, Ascète, Hanternoz, Moisson Livide, Passéisme, Abduction, Atronos, Grylle, Sühnopfer, etc. And it’s usually on France’s Antiq Records, or sometimes Germany’s Purity Through Fire. So how about a new French project from members of the above bands that’s on Antiq Records? Hardiesse (‘boldness, bravery’) is a duo […]
Florida’s doom and gloom Wharflurch return with their second album Mycodeath and Rebirth in the Outer Clusters. Interestingly enough, on the same day they released this, they released Wharflurch Presents… Swamp Synth, which would be considered a third album. However, that is a synth-only album in which vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Myk Colby did an all-synth release based […]
I have covered Denmark’s lumbering death metal friends Dawn Of Demise, a bunch at this here website: from their debut in 2008, through the Lacerated EP i in 2009, to A Force Unstoppable in 2010, their last for Deepsend Records (RIP). They moved to Unique Leader for Rejoice in Vengeance (2012) and The Suffering (2016), […]
The last time I reviewed Mother of Graves was their The Periapt of Absence album from 2024. That album made it onto my Year End List and cemented my admiration for these purveyors of all things Doom/Death Metal. Well, here I am on a rainy day, and I am here to testify that The Light […]
Master has returned with their 16th album, Among the Seeds of Death. That’s a lot of albums, and I reviewed their last album from 2024, Saints Dispelled. That was definitely a fun and classic-sounding Master album, but on Among the Seeds of Death, mastermind Paul Speckmann has upped the ante even more. Alex Nejezchleba returns […]
Oh boy. This is wild and definitely one of the most unique releases of the year I’ve heard, if not the last few years. “Peasant metal”? “Medieval Avant-Metal”? “Hovel-core”? I’m not sure what to call this: the brainchild of David Monks from the 2000s Canadian indie rock band Tokyo Police Club, here under the guise […]
Infibulate Records is a brand-new record label, and label owner Sarah contacted our illustrious Editor-in-Chief, Erik, recently about their first signing, Mousecunt, and their debut album, Orgasmic Mouse. Sarah follows our site and made complimentary remarks about me and my writing style, so I had to review this. I weighed in on the email mentioning […]
Enterré Vivant came under my radar with the release of 悪罪 (Akuzaï) last year, and I covered it in these hallowed pages. Hopefully at least one of you went out and bought it because it is a fantastic record that drips emotion. Kurogoku doesn’t pull any punches in that department; they take what is left […]
I grabbed this promo because the Gurkhas were this revered, ghost-like unit of the British Army, where I spent a little time. If you want to read the history of this unique military entry of Nepalese badasses (now the Royal Gurkha Rifles) , check it out here. Here, Gurkkhas (with an extra K?) is a […]
I picked this EP out of curiosity. The fact that it’s short and from a band I’ve never heard of is important, but the bottom line is: HPGD aren’t known for releasing shitty albums. I was in the mood for some crazy cool Grind with Slam and Death Metal elements. There’s even some Black Metal […]